Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-05

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from the throne, attempt 10 20 across
it. For a million years they fly and
ly, but then come back aud fold their
wings at the foot OF the throne and cry,
e.No shore! No shore to Gods mercy!''
Mercy! Mercy! | sing it. / preach il.
| pray it. Here ! find a man bound
hand and foot TO the devil, but with
one stroke of the hammer of Gods
truth the chains fall off and he is free
forever. Mercy. Mercy! Mercy!
There is no depth it cannot fathom;
there is no height it cannot scale; there
is no iniinity it cannot compass.
When persons apply for membership
into any society, the question is asked:
..Who are they and where do they come
from?" and as this multitude Of people
to-day present themselves for member
ship, it is right that we should ask:
WHO are these that come as doves to
their windows?" They are captives
whose
HAINs HAVE BEEF BROKEN;
they are soldiers who have enlisted for
"A thirty years war. They are heirs Of
Heaven. They came rs doves TO the
windows, first, because they fly low.
The eagle darts up, as if to strike its
beak into the sun. There are birds
that seem to dwell under the caves of
heaven; YOU see them as little specks
against the sky, SO far of that YOU can
not guess the style Of their plumage
or the shape of their bodies.
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if the hunters gun be discharged at
them they do not change their course.
Not so with the doves or pigeons, they
never take any high excursions. They
fly around your roof and alight on the
fence and seem to dislike great alti
tudes. SO these souls who come to
Christ and to his church d0-day, fly
low. They ask no great things; they
seek an humble place ut the feet Of
Christ. They are not ashamed to be
called beggars for mercy: they are will
ing to get down on their knees. and to
crawl under the table, and to pick up
the crumbs of Gospel provision. There
were days when they were proud and
punctiiious and inexOrable and pulled
up; but not now. The highest throne
of earth could not tempt Mary away
from Jesus's feet. Stoop, O pardon
ed soul! if thou would'st enter Heaven.
A high look and a proud heart God
hates. Fly low. 1t is a mercy that
thou can'st fly at all. Remember all
the years of thy youth; thy days of
youthful wandering; thy days of nan
hood transgressions; thy sins-dark,
broOding, 1eathful- sins against thy
soul, against thy Bible; against thy
God.
In one of the benevolent institutions
of Europe where the destitute are pro-
yided for, the eWcom have their
photographs taken while in rags before
they are washed. SO that they may may
always have in the picture Il reminder
of the degradation from which they
were lifted; SO, in this book, God keeps
before thee a picture of thy former des-
t~itution and raggedness of soul,
FLY LOW.
1t is an offended God fefore whom
thou contest. Thou deservest His
wrath. He scattered the one hundred
and eighty-five thousand of SIENNA
cherib's host in a night. He abhors
sin. He will Judge the nations. Holy,
holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty.
Fly low.
A thousand years ago IN emperor
planted a rose bush from which roses
are plucked to-day. At the foot
of the cross nearly nineteen centuries
ago a rose was planted which blooms
to-day; stoop down, if thou would'st
!. pluck it. q for more of the childlike
spirit! | rejoice in the belief that those
who come to Christ to-day, come
aware o. their sins and their wants,
and have learned how 10 fy low.
Again: Those persons who come to-
day are like doves on their way t o the
doye-dot, because they fly for shelter.
! The albatross makes n throne of the
t, tempest; the sea-gulls find their grand
= est frolic in the storm-their merriest
hour seems TO be that in which the
surf OF the sea piles most high. Not
. so with doves; at the first blow Of the
northeaster they ily to the coop. Ea-
gle contends with eagle in mid air,
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of the carcass, but doves at the first
dash of the bird of pray, speed for
shelter from fiery eye and iron beak
: and loathsome talon. So to-day these
| souls come here for shelter. Every
one has a besetting sin; that sin is
always after YOU. The robber watches
, you when you come out of the bank,
, sees in what pocket YOU put your
money, follows you down the street,
notices where you 90 to dine, and
where you sleep, and what kind of a
lock you have on your door; so there
is some sin ever on a mans track. 1t
goes with him to the store, it sits on
the money safe. it looks over his
shoulder while he makes out the bill Of
lading, it goes out with him to dine,
it walks home with him at night. As
to some dog that you do not want to
follow you, bat persists, YOU say to it:
Back home with you!" You stone
il away and start on. After awhile.
causalty turning your eye, you find it
close after YOU with n sneaking look.
Wherever you 90,